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[Misc] Have you any experience of curses?



exKT17

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Nov 27, 2016
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Reading the Yaya thread & picking up on the theme of curses.

Way back I used to work for a businessman who, when no other avenues remained, would put curses on his adversaries.

(He was white, wealthy, upper-middle class BTW.)

No dolls and pins, he would simply wish them ill and share the fact...

...it was a no-lose thing to do...

...because if a year later, or two or three years later the 'cursee' lost their job/had an accident/got sued/died then the curse had worked...

...or if nothing happened, then the curse was still there, waiting for its time.

Doing so used to give him a great deal of satisfaction.

I know it sounds utterly stupid and anti-rational, but in my lizard brain I can see some functionality to it. I would prefer not to be walking around with curses upon me, and I think my life chances are better without them. Therefore I try to conduct my life in ways designed to avoid my becoming a cursee.

Making the world a better place, probably.

Clever dudes these ancient Africans say I, they had/have some very elegant social constructions in place.

Ever been cursed or made a curse?
 


Goldstone1976

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Apr 30, 2013
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I make a point of cursing mike dean.

I’ll now put a curse on him too. Can’t hurt.
 




Goldstone1976

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Be careful, because, in the folk-lore of cursing, an unjust curse can bounce back on the curse-giver...

Ah.

Hang on - I think I have every just cause to put a curse on him. Curse, and be damned.
 


Hampden Park

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Oct 7, 2003
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When i used to get a knock at the door from a lucky heather selling gypsy, i used to say no thank you and stick your lucky heather where the sun doesn't shine. They would then put a curse on me and my family, to which i would reply, same curse back at you but with double the intensity. They would then apologise and retract their initial curse. Curses pffffft
 




hart's shirt

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Jul 8, 2003
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I make a point of cursing The Complete And Utter Shyster.

I’ll now put a curse on him too. Can’t hurt.

If the outcome for Dean is both deserved and fatal, it could well be a case of hearses for curses.
 








Baldseagull

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Jan 26, 2012
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I quite like to issue mild curses, such as, "may your armpits be itchy all day today". The thing is, half the time, people will have a little rub of the pits after that one, and this is how curses work, if you think about them, and especially if you believe in them.
 








Harry Wilson's tackle

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I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may. :rolleyes:
 


Thunder Bolt

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I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may. :rolleyes:

:eek: I'm glad you're nice to me on Nsc. :eek:
 






Gabbafella

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Aug 22, 2012
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I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may. :rolleyes:

Brain hemorrhage in return for a detention seems just a tad harsh on the curse front there.
I was suspended twice, I dare not look at what happened to my teachers!
 






Tim Over Whelmed

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Jul 24, 2007
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Arundel
Reading the Yaya thread & picking up on the theme of curses.

Way back I used to work for a businessman who, when no other avenues remained, would put curses on his adversaries.

(He was white, wealthy, upper-middle class BTW.)

No dolls and pins, he would simply wish them ill and share the fact...

...it was a no-lose thing to do...

...because if a year later, or two or three years later the 'cursee' lost their job/had an accident/got sued/died then the curse had worked...

...or if nothing happened, then the curse was still there, waiting for its time.

Doing so used to give him a great deal of satisfaction.

I know it sounds utterly stupid and anti-rational, but in my lizard brain I can see some functionality to it. I would prefer not to be walking around with curses upon me, and I think my life chances are better without them. Therefore I try to conduct my life in ways designed to avoid my becoming a cursee.

Making the world a better place, probably.

Clever dudes these ancient Africans say I, they had/have some very elegant social constructions in place.

Ever been cursed or made a curse?

What an evil p***k, how did you manage to work with / for him?
 




Tim Over Whelmed

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Jul 24, 2007
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Arundel
I have never consciously wished anyone ill. However, many people who has crossed me (especially the malicious and bullying types) have come a cropper. When I was 5 a lad made a mob of other nippers chase me home. A few days later a friend threw the purpetrator into a prickly bush. When I was 17, a pillock prefect who was 18 gave me a detention for getting to school 3 minutes late. A year later he as dead. Brain haemorrhage or something. I could go on.....

It is quite relaxing knowing that things always seem to work out well for me in the end. Come what may. :rolleyes:

I think this is where I am. Some poor sod nicked a load of cassettes out of my Austin 1100 once and died a few days later in a crash and similar things have happened since that have made me think I'd rather people didn't cross me!
 





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